I'm looking at doing Creative Technology BSc at Glamorgan Uni (ATRiuM in Cardiff) in 2010 and I was wondering what accommodation do you all reccomend?

The ones they talked about on the open day were Ty Pont Hearn, Cambrian Point and The Bakery, so if you could reccomend one and/or give some hints on tips on what I and other people should know about these places it would be an awesome help

Cambrian Point, although it's really nice and quite good value, is a good 1.5 - 2 miles away from the ATRiuM, whereas the Bakery and Ty Pont Heaern are in the same part of town that the ATRiuM is. But plenty of Glamorgan students do live there, so it's up to you to decide if you can be arsed walking for 40 minutes every morning and the same again to get back home.

I'm looking at doing Creative Technology BSc at Glamorgan Uni (ATRiuM in Cardiff) in 2010 and I was wondering what accommodation do you all reccomend?

The ones they talked about on the open day were Ty Pont Hearn, Cambrian Point and The Bakery, so if you could reccomend one and/or give some hints on tips on what I and other people should know about these places it would be an awesome help

Thankssssssssssssss

Heyyy! Im thinking of studying here also but doing drama!

I missed the open day due to the fact im currently in New Zealand on a gap year!

The open day was really good, they had a tour around the campus, so we had a look around each floor (mainly just computer labs) and on the other side of the building you have the cinema, drama rooms etc. The welcome talk was pretty standard stuff, talk a few statistics then there was a talk on accommodation, they mentioned the three I have above and mentioned private sector accom. Then everyone went off into their course talks and then there was a few workshops and a tour of cardiff and the accom.

Theres another open day coming up, 31st October If you cant make that one, just call the uni up, explain that you cant make it to the open day and then you can arrange to go down there one day and have a member of staff take you on a tour, give you relevant leaflets etc, ive been told that the majority of unis do this.

Thats as much as I can tell you really, you can pretty much find all the information given today on their website, only part of the open day that made it special was the tours around and the subject talks and i dont know what the drama one was!

(Original post by Joeleh)
The open day was really good, they had a tour around the campus, so we had a look around each floor (mainly just computer labs) and on the other side of the building you have the cinema, drama rooms etc. The welcome talk was pretty standard stuff, talk a few statistics then there was a talk on accommodation, they mentioned the three I have above and mentioned private sector accom. Then everyone went off into their course talks and then there was a few workshops and a tour of cardiff and the accom.

Theres another open day coming up, 31st October If you cant make that one, just call the uni up, explain that you cant make it to the open day and then you can arrange to go down there one day and have a member of staff take you on a tour, give you relevant leaflets etc, ive been told that the majority of unis do this.

Thats as much as I can tell you really, you can pretty much find all the information given today on their website, only part of the open day that made it special was the tours around and the subject talks and i dont know what the drama one was!

GRRR!! I can't even make that opening day as im still in New Zealand. I'll shall email them.

Did you get to look round the new student union??

I guess the only other thing im slightly concerned about is the not living on campus thing. It might sound stupid, but im worried that I won't get the "full student experience" e.g. joining socities, the student union events etc. Also the freshers fair? Meh, I think i'm thinking about this WAYYY to much as there are going to be tons of Glam students in the same boat.